mstevens

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by mstevens 17y ago
An obvious alternative is to pay to be with another payment service provider who sucks less.
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by mstevens 17y ago
Related, there are various indian companies that offer the virtual equivalent, but I've never signed up because of: a) worries about cultural fit b) they all seem to make the signup process that little bit too painful c) there's always a sl
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by mstevens 17y ago
Thought from last night - we need a HN "problem registry". Not that new software ideas are hard to come by, but it'd be interesting to build up a list of specific pain points with eg) email.
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by mstevens 17y ago
Another good trick is that if you want to comment privately on someone else's email, always forward, never reply. That way you reduce the risk of accidentally emailing it to the person you're talking about.
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by mstevens 17y ago
True, true, I was just reacting to the "this is the only market segment anyone is ever allowed to go for" tone.
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by mstevens 17y ago
I agree with you in that it could be a good market segment to go for, but I think there's a lot of potential value in other market segments. For example, the ISP I use targets technical users, and they seem to be doing quite nicely.
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by mstevens 17y ago
I came here to say something similar. I think all this labelling as "normal" / "other" is unhealthy, because it leads to unexamined associations about the group, and thoughts like "the 'normal' people are morally better, anyone with differe
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by mstevens 17y ago
Please support this.
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by mstevens 17y ago
When I left my last job my notice was 3 months and they insisted I work it.
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by mstevens 17y ago
This has just reminded me I've got a lot of data backed up with you and no idea if the restore works :)
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by mstevens 17y ago
Off the top of my head: Something for writers along http://www.hogbaysoftware.com/products/writeroom lines. Portable blogging. Trip planning - going on a family holiday? Store your tickets, where you're going, what's good to see there, th
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by mstevens 17y ago
Posted seeing as the other RFS discussion seems to be more about the meaning of the iPad and whether it's a good idea. Hoping we can get a more focused discussion on how to extract cash.
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IPad Applications brainstorming
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by mstevens 17y ago
I can believe the iPad will do well in this market, but I don't believe apple gave it more than a tiny amount of thought when designing the thing. Apple are all about mass consumer markets, it'd be totally out of character for them to desig
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by mstevens 17y ago
I have several large boxes that haven't been opened in 2-3 moves. I still can't persuade myself to get rid of them.
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by mstevens 17y ago
I'm looking for a new todo list tool at the moment. How would it work for a vaguely GTD style?
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by mstevens 17y ago
If you got a different response, like "Hi, XYZ Corp, what extension would you like?", it might be politeish. Of course anyone being quite that manual has probably now been replaced by a PBX.
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by mstevens 17y ago
It's good, but it's not a CMS.
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by mstevens 17y ago
I have a big procrastination problem. An effective tool/strategy/app for reducing this procrastination could be massively useful to me.
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by mstevens 17y ago
Interesting. Looks more mac specific than I was thinking. My musings on interesting areas: * I don't care about IMAP/POP/all that stuff. Mail comes in via SMTP, goes out via SMTP. * Messages go straight into postgres * There's gold in them
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by mstevens 17y ago
I know this is in some ways a claim to be smarter than google, but I always feel like email clients just aren't up to it. I have some fuzzy ideas on better webmail I plan to experiment with one day.
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by mstevens 17y ago
The bit that has surprised and interested me with usesthis.com is how few people they've talked to use Linux, and how many people use OS X. I mean, I knew OS X was big in the geek market, I just didn't quite realise it was this popular.
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by mstevens 17y ago
I may be an unusual case of convergence, but I find both the iPad AND what the FSF say relevant. I really like the ease of use of something like an iPad whilst getting concerned about the long term consequences for my data.
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by mstevens 17y ago
I thought the link text was misleading - I expected it to be a company that helped you do screen shots!
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by mstevens 17y ago
BSD people tend to like BSD licensed things.
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by mstevens 17y ago
I've stuck with a fair bit of Getting Things Done for a couple of years. And I think it really helps me keep organised.
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by mstevens 17y ago
Does anyone have any information on what's changed in 1.1?
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by mstevens 17y ago
It was working a few minutes ago, seems to have just broken.
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by mstevens 17y ago
Put my $100 in. Not an active user of clojure at the moment, but a huge fan of the project, and I hope to use it more in future.
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by mstevens 17y ago
Until they start mining cows for oil, eating meat tends to promote killing creatures, using plastic doesn't.

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